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Welcome. I'm Phil. Professionally, I'm very much into IT, but also thrive on politics and theology. On many weekends I volunteer as a semi-professional camera director for a 9-campus church in metro Atlanta. These views are mine unless otherwise credited. Enjoy!

If a Democratic member of Congress is to be believed, there’s someone in the Obama administration who has committed a crime – and if the president knew about it, analysts say it could be grounds for impeachment.

“This scandal could be enormous,” said Dick Morris, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, on the Fox News Sean Hannity show last night. “It’s Valerie Plame only 10 times bigger, because it’s illegal and Joe Sestak is either lying or the White House committed a crime.

“Obviously, the offer of a significant job in the White House could not be made unless it was by Rahm Emanuel or cleared with Rahm Emanuel,” he said. If the job offer was high enough that it also had Obama’s apppoval, “that is a high crime and misdemeanor.”

Michelle Malkin covers who’s behind the White House stonewalling (hint: it includes attorney Bob Bauer — you know, the attorney at the Perkins Coie law firm, the same firm that represented the Administration through dozens of eligibility suits), and both RedState and HotAir point out that all 7 GOP Senators on the Judiciary Committee are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the job offer.

Whoever pays or offers or promises any money or thing of value,to any person, firm, or corporation in consideration of the use or promise to use any influence to procure any appointive office or place under the United States for any person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Whoever solicits or receives, either as a political contribution,or for personal emolument, any money or thing of value, inconsideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both….

In the same posting wherein Prof. Jacobson recommends that Mr. Sestak needs to start talking, he poses some great questions:

Is Sestak refusing to talk on advice of counsel so that there is no waiver of his 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination? Or is Sestak refusing to talk just because Admirals don’t talk?

Legally, Sestak is right to keep quiet.

Politically, there is only one thing which can keep Sestak’s ship from sinking — loose lips.

I have been following this story off and on for a few months, with thanks to those concerned citizens who have emailed me about it from time to time. The bottom line is that the nominee’s stance has never changed; he simply refuses, to date, to go into further details about it.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that questionable actions have occurred with this Administration. In fact, as Jim Kouri of the Law Enforcement Examiner points out, Judicial Watch claims that the White House has attempted to “bribe” Democrats with federal judgeships.

2 thoughts on “The Sestak Scandal”

People making a big deal about this now, but it’s been ongoing claim for months. Since the Justice Department is now a group of Political hack lawyers, and no longer functional for the public, no one will ever investigate it. Even if it was investigated, and the White House was found to have broken existing law, so what? This administration doesn’t care much for the law, or the Constitution, and neither does Congress.

What is different? In the 1970’s the Media in this country really sought out the truth, really wanted the White House to be a place of leadership, and the public was shocked by Pres. Nixon cover up for criminals. Now, we have criminals and they don’t even bother to cover up since the don’t like America, the Constitution, or care much for rule of law (see eligibility issue). Nixon criminal behavior looks silly when compared to Obama:

1. Fitzpatrick shuts off the wire taps on Blago when Obama starts talking, then gets promoted. ROFLOL I’m sure it was just time to turn off the taps.
2. Judges have been quoted as saying “We are avoiding the eligibility issue”.
3. Sestak makes public claims of wrong doing and criminal White house behavior, nobody checks into it.
4. Obama take the stimulus money and spreads it out to his Democratic party cronies.
5. Obama takes over GM and give it to the Unions that sucked it dry in the first place. Shafts the republican dealerships in Chrysler and GM.
6. Obama orders a “hit” on an American Citizen without trial or Constitutional rights, but sends lawyers to aid enemy combatants get Constitutional rights in a Afganistan.
7. Obama denies Arizona border protection while being invaded by a hostile foriegn power, in clear violation of the Constitution.

BTW, has anyone seen the 2010 Congressional Budget, or are they to busy cheering on Mexico’s President whom is allowing our southwestern states to be invaded?